Duckweed, a tiny freshwater floating plant, is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change and ...

Q: I just bought a property that has a small pond on it. I thought the pond was covered in algae. I was told that it is covered in duckweed. The duckweed is apparently protecting the fish and frogs ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The once-mysterious green “scum” that was first reported to be floating through Portland on the Willamette River earlier is still lingering in the area. However, local experts ...

Duckweed is far more than just a pond-dwelling plant. It’s a nutrient-dense, easy-to-produce alternative protein. If you’ve heard of it at all, you are probably more used to seeing duckweed in ponds ...

Duckweed and watermeal are two free-floating plants that can wreak havoc on a pond. These two plants are extremely small (duckweed is 1/8 to ¼ inch in diameter). You can tell these two plants apart by ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - The composition of aquatic plant communities in shallow freshwater bodies, including floating plants, submerged plants and phytoplankton, can have important effects on greenhouse gas ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Duckweed, high in protein. Photo provided by the National Institute of Biological Resources A Korean research team has ...

For many pond owners the sight of a green film across their prized body of water is all too familiar. While there are a multitude of aquatic plant species that may be to blame, two of the most ...

The other day, I was driving over a bridge in Two Rivers and was surprised to see the surface of the lower West Twin River covered with a light green haze of algae. I was also told that the East Twin ...